Royal DSM launches new collaborative platform to accelerate availability of Covid-19 solutions

Royal DSM has announced the launch of UNITE4COVID, a digital, open, collaborative marketplace designed to provide solutions for healthcare professionals, as well as a forum and collaboration hub for inventors, manufacturers and certification labs in the fight against corona.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing industry continues to provide help to relieve the urgent need for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other safety equipment.

Healthcare professionals as well as organisations, institutions and companies looking to protect their patients, employees and customers can access UNITE4COVID to see and request the currently available solutions.

The platform can also be utilised by solution providers from inventors to production hubs to share ideas, solutions, capacity and more.

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The Unite4COVID platform is highlighted on the World Economic Forum’s COVID Action Platform as a key effort from the manufacturing community to better connect those with a need and a global network of solution providers.

“We strongly believe that value chain collaboration is a must. The 3D printing industry was able to respond very fast when the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the traditional supply chains as its digital, distributed way of manufacturing allows for creating solutions where the demand is highest. In the meanwhile, also out-of-the-box initiatives in the traditional manufacturing industry are starting to deliver solutions,” said Hugo da Silva, VP Additive Manufacturing at DSM.

“By bringing together organisations with different manufacturing competencies and matching them with the needs of the organisations in vital sectors, we can offer effective solutions more quickly. It’s by collaborating that we’ll make the biggest impact in beating COVID-19 and saving lives.”

DSM calls upon all organisations actively fighting Covid-19 in the manufacturing industry to join and add solutions to UNITE4COVID.